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ANNUAL REPORT 2017/2018 Pursuing justice through science and law

WHERE WE’VE BEEN IN 2017 • ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING PROJECT Investigating war crimes•  FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM United States FRONT COVER: A Bangladeshi border agent gestures as he stops a crowd of Rohingya Muslim refugees waiting to proceed to camps in Cox’sBrazil | Colombia | Germany | Guatemala | India |  •  SEXUAL VIOLENCE PROGRAM Bazar, Bangladesh. More than 700,000 Rohingya refugees have gone toMexico | Mongolia | Netherlands | Peru | Turkey |  Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar’s military that the UnitedUnited States Central African Republic | Ethiopia | Guatemala |  Nations Human Rights office has called “a textbook example of ethnic Mexico | Netherlands | Norway | Senegal | Uganda |  cleansing.” Our Human Rights Investigations Lab is contributing to•  FORENSIC PROJECT United Kingdom  |  United States documentation and verification of information related to potential war crimes in Myanmar. Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images.Argentina | Chile | El Salvador •  TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM REPORT DESIGN: Nicole Hayward•  HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM Belgium | France | Germany | Italy | Netherlands |  Sweden | Switzerland | United Kingdom | United StatesFrance | Greece | Switzerland | United Kingdom | United States•  HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER (AT LARGE)Argentina | Indonesia | United States

From the DirectorsOn pursuing justice through science and lawDear Friends,As we approach our 25th year, the Human Rights Center con- vices to survivors. One meeting brought activists, technologists,tinues to investigate some of the gravest human rights crises of investigators, and prosecutors to the Rockefeller Foundation’sour times—from the violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar Bellagio Center to begin hammering out global guidelines forto the relentless assaults on Syrians to the plight of displaced open source investigations. Another was held in Kampalawomen, men, and children around the world. where police officers, healthcare workers, lawyers, and advo- cates discussed practical ways to improve accountability forBefore engaging in any project—whether related to sexual sexual violence.violence, technology, or health—we ask: How can we make the This summer, we will move into an historic house on the Berkeleygreatest impact? campus—a space large enough for our 12 staff, more than 80 Human Rights Investigations Lab students, multiple graduateLocated at the best public research university in the world, we student researchers, and several visiting activists and scholars.leverage the energy and expertise of students to support humanrights organizations, courts, and policy institutes worldwide. We could not do this work without you. Thank you!In 2017 alone, our students, faculty, and staff contributed morethan 9,000 hours to human rights research and investigations. Sincerely,We also hosted workshops in Italy, Uganda, Norway, and the Eric Stover, Faculty Director Alexa Koenig, Executive DirectorUnited States to develop innovative policies and strategies aimedat improving investigations of human rights abuses and ser-Improving human rights research Supporting survivors Training the next generation“ Since I fled from Egypt, I had been struggling to regain a sense of family and home. I had constantly wished to have some impact on the injustice I had witnessed. In 2016, the HRC changed my life. It has become my home, my family, and my vehicle for justice. ”Youstina Youssef, UC Berkeley undergraduate, ’18 HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER  |  ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018  |  1

Peter Bittner, 2017 Human Rights Center Fellow, interviewsa recent rural-urban migrant affected by climate change inUlaanbaatar, Mongolia (photo by Dimitri Staszenski).

Fellowship Program“ The goal of my HRC fellowship was to document the human rights abuses caused Our special thanks to Dr. Thomas J. White by Mexico’s Southern Border Program, which has deported record numbers of for making this program possible. Central Americans from Mexico. I felt like my project would really be missing something if I didn’t also look at what happens after deportation, and so I ended up producing a story about a man who grew up in California and was deported back to El Salvador. The fellowship allowed me to document his experience. ”Levi Bridges, MJ, Human Rights Center Fellow 2017ABOVE (LEFT TO RIGHT): Juan Vicente grew up in Our Fellowship Program gives University of California students the opportunity to contrib-California, leaving his mother and children when he ute their energy and expertise to human rights organizations worldwide. We are now morewas deported to El Salvador (photo by Levi Bridges); than 300 Human Rights Center Fellows strong. In 2017, our 14 Fellows worked with survi-2017 HRC Fellowship conference: (top row) Thomas vors and human rights defenders in 10 countries: including nomadic herders in MongoliaJ. White, Eric Stover, Levi Bridges, Alice Taylor, Peter who are displaced by climate change, Central American migrants in transit on Mexico’sBittner, Stefanie Le, Isabelle Carbonell, Sarah Schear, southern border, and Syrians in Berlin who are documenting attacks on hospitals. OurCaroline Tracey, Marianinna Villavicencio, (front Fellows often go on to work as lawyers, academics, journalists, and advocates. In manyrow) Lela Rose Bachrach, Sarah Lakhani, Alexandra instances, the fellowship deepens their commitment to human rights work—for life.Carter, Andrea Trewinnard, Youstina Youssef,Nathalie Alegre, Juan Ramirez, Alexa Koenig, Audrey HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER  |  ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018  |  3Whiting (photo by Monica Haulman; A Mongolianherder tends his flock in Arkhangai Province (photoby Peter Bittner).

This sprawling camp in Bangladesh is home to many of theRohingya refugees who fled violence in Myanmar duringsummer and fall 2017 (photo by Jeanne Hallacy).

Health and Human Rights Program“ When you ask them, ‘If you hadn’t been living in this situation would you still consider marrying off your daughter?’ They say, ‘No, I think I would much prefer that she would go to school, get an education, finish her education, and then get married. But under these circumstances, we don’t have money to support our children. We don’t have money to send them to school, and things are out ”of our control.’ Practitioner, Syrian Refugee Response, LebanonABOVE (LEFT TO RIGHT): Health and Human Rights Launched in 2017, our Health and Human Rights Program works to improve the health andProgram Director Julie Freccero is interviewed by protection of marginalized communities affected by humanitarian crises. With supportAl Jazeera about the vulnerabilities of refugee boys from USAID, we are partnering with the International Rescue Committee to launch thein Greece; A Syrian girl looks at wedding dresses “Safer Cash Project” in areas affected by conflicts. Together, we will conduct research and(photo by Rosie Thompson, courtesy of Save the develop tools to make cash programming safer and ensure that support reaches the mostChildren); Researcher Audrey Whiting, Freccero, and vulnerable people. We’ve also partnered with Save the Children UK to develop strategies toResearcher Joanna Ortega discuss new health and prevent child marriage and support married girls in humanitarian settings.human rights projects (photo by Kat Madrigal Cheng). HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER  |  ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018  |  5

The Special Prosecutor of the Special Criminal Court for the CentralAfrican Republic, Col. Toussaint Muntazini Mukimapa (DemocraticRepublic of Congo) and five national magistrates were sworn inbefore President Faustin Touadéra. The Sexual Violence Programwas in Bangui that week, helping local units prepare to investigateconflict-related sexual violence (photo by Kim Thuy Seelinger).

Sexual Violence Program“ I came to law school hoping to gain a skill set that would enable me to help advance and protect women’s fundamental rights around the globe, and HRC’s Sexual Violence Program has provided me with the chance to begin contributing to this work even before I graduate. ”Jenna Klein, third year, Berkeley LawABOVE (LEFT TO RIGHT): Program Director Kim Thuy At the request of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, we are working with a team of graduateSeelinger reunited with Congolese colleagues Dr. Neema students to learn how to better protect people from gender-based violence while in transitRukunghu and Col. David Bodeli in the Central African through Central America. We are also providing hands-on assistance to lawyers, judges, andRepublic in June 2017 to train specialized police, gendarmes, investigators who document or prosecute wartime rape and other gender-based crimes. Withand court investigators on responding to sexual crimes Berkeley Law’s International Human Rights Law Clinic, we assisted Ugandan jurists on their(photo by Kim Thuy Seelinger); Seelinger and researcher first domestic war crimes case. We are also helping to train investigators in the Central AfricanJulia Uyttewaal conducted migration-related fieldwork at Republic, as the new Special Criminal Court prepares to open. With colleagues from Sciences-the Guatemala-Mexico border in November 2017, including Po and the University of Copenhagen, Program Director Kim Thuy Seelinger is now co-editing aat this migrant shelter in Tenosique, Mexico (photo by Julia book on the landmark trial of Hissène Habré, the former president of Chad who was convicted ofUyttewaal); Seelinger collaborated with Ugandan police, rape and sexual slavery as torture and a crime against humanity.lawyers, military, and healthcare providers to improvedocumentation of sexual and gender-based crimes and HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER  |  ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018  |  7is pictured here with Dr. Sylvester Onzivua and medicalexperts from Kampala, Mbarara, and Gulu (photo by Dr.Sabrina Kitaka).

Human Rights Investigations Lab students on our Syria Team, ledby Andrea Trewinnard, used satellite imagery from Google Earthto verify a chemical attack on a hospital in Al-Lataminah, Syria,in March 2017.

Technology and Human Rights“ The lab has provided me with a sense of purpose as a student, but also it has confirmed my passion 2018 HUMAN RIGHTS to promote justice over impunity. It has allowed me to reevaluate how to approach a news story INVESTIGATIONS LAB and to think critically in a manner that highlights people over politics. Most of all, it has bestowed upon me a sense of agency with which I cannot only ask questions, but also find solutions using Where facts matter the verification tools that the lab has taught me, allowing me to rely on my own capacity to build evidence instead of helplessly and passively waiting to receive it. 80 students ”Miu Kumakura, UC Berkeley undergraduate 31 languages 22 majors and minors 8 investigative teamsABOVE (LEFT TO RIGHT): The International Our Technology and Human Rights Program is training students from across campus andCriminal Court’s Cristina Ribeiro (center) with across the world to conduct human rights investigations in more than a dozen countries.Amnesty International’s Scott Edwards (left) and Using open source information—videos, photographs, Tweets, and Facebook posts—WITNESS’s Kelly Matheson (right), discusses students in our Human Rights Investigations Lab use cutting-edge methods to find andopen source investigations at our workshop at verify potential evidence of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. The Humanthe Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center Rights Center also administers the Technology Advisory Board of the International Criminal(photo by Andrea Lampros); Students from Court and is drafting the first global guidelines for how to investigate alleged war crimes andPretoria, Essex, Toronto, and Berkeley took a human rights abuses online—helping to bring human rights practice into the 21st century.sightseeing break after the three-day DigitalVerification Corps student summit hosted at UC HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER  |  ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018  |  9Berkeley in June 2017; Technology and HumanRights Program Director Félim McMahon wrapsup a lecture to the 80 students in our HumanRights Investigations Lab (photo by AndreaLampros).

Forensic Project “ Each identification of a stolen grandchild not only impacts the person who recovers his or her identity, it also puts our society in front of the mirror of its own identity, allowing us to recover our own ”memory and those parts of our history we have denied. Mariana Herrera Piñero, director of the Banco Nacional de Datos Genéticos Where are they? That’s the question our partners at Asociación Pro-Búsqueda de Niñas y ABOVE (LEFT TO RIGHT): Eric Stover and a colleague Niños Desaparecidos in El Salvador continue to ask about the children who were torn from at the Banco Nacional de Datos Genéticos in their families by war and forced adoptions decades ago. Some 435 cases have been resolved to Argentina; Eduardo Garcia, executive director of date. Our senior research fellow Cristián Orrego is in El Salvador to support Pro-Búsqueda’s Pro-Búsqueda, holds portraits of Salvadoran women efforts in using DNA to reunite loved ones. Orrego has also helped investigate the death of who lost their siblings during the civil war in El the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, and traveled with Faculty Director Eric Stover to Argentina Salvador (photo by Salvador Melendez, Associated to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Banco Nacional de Datos Genéticos, an organization Press); Faculty Director Eric Stover and Senior that analyzes DNA evidence to link grandparents with potential grandchildren in the wake of Research Fellow Cristián Orrego converse during Argentina’s “Dirty War.” the 30th anniversary of the Banco Nacional de Datos Genéticos in Argentina.10  |  HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER  |  ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018

Anti-Human Trafficking Project“ You have to stay persistent. You can’t just give up. . . . I had a 22-year-old victim who was afraid to testify against her pimp. It was my first case and now 10 months later she calls me at least once or twice a week to let me know that she has a job, she’s living out of town, she wants to really thank me, she has a steady boyfriend. It takes a long time to develop that relationship and that trust, but I think it can work. ”A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Investigator, Building Trust StudyABOVE (LEFT TO RIGHT): The Human Rights Center Building off earlier research on human trafficking in the United States, the Human Rightsissued the first study of Los Angeles County’s new Center studied anti-trafficking efforts in California in 2017/2018 to strengthen support forvictim-centered approach to addressing human survivors and prosecution of perpetrators. We issued the first study of Los Angeles County’strafficking (photo by Nemanja Pantelic, courtesy novel anti-trafficking efforts—evaluating a program that could become a model for the na-of Creative Commons); Researcher Khaled Alrabe tion. Faculty Director Eric Stover, Researcher Khaled Alrabe, and a team of law studentshighlights findings of the Bay Area trafficking study interviewed 45 federal, state, and county investigators, service providers, and prosecutorsduring a day-long, student-led anti-trafficking for Building Trust: Perspectives on a Victim-Centered Approach to Human Trafficking Investigationsworkshop at UC Berkeley in February 2018 in Los Angeles County. In 2018, the Human Rights Center will issue a second study that exam-(photo by Monica Haulman); The center’s next ines Bay Area anti-trafficking efforts.trafficking study, to be issued in 2018, looks intoanti-trafficking work in the San Francisco Bay Area HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER  |  ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018  |  11(photo courtesy of Creative Commons).

Human Rights and Business“ Microsoft appreciated the opportunity the Human Rights Center provided for our President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith to join the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in a discussion that highlighted the many intersections of technology and human rights.  This was a great example of how our partnership with the Human Rights and Business Initiative allows us to engage UC Berkeley’s ”faculty and students in our human rights priorities. Steve Crown, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Human Rights, Microsoft Corporation The Human Rights and Business Initiative, led by Faris Natour and Marissa Saretsky, is coming ABOVE (LEFT TO RIGHT): The Business and Human to HRC as part of a new partnership with Haas School of Business’s Center for Responsible Rights Initiative’s Faris Natour and Marissa Soretsky Business. In 2017, we co-hosted a conversation about the future of technology, free speech, (pictured center) and Center for Responsible and human rights with United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Business’s Robert Strand (right of center) gather Hussein and Microsoft’s President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith. In 2018, in addition before their event featuring the United Nations to conducting groundbreaking research on the role of business in human rights, we will co- High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad host a conference to investigate the impact of artificial intelligence on the “Future of Work.”  Al Hussein and Microsoft President Brad Smith (photo by Manali Sibthorpe); Human Rights Center12  |  HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER  |  ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018 Executive Director Alexa Koenig moderated the talk with Al Hussein (center) and Smith (right) on the role of technology and business in promoting human rights and freedom of expression (photo by Manali Sibthorpe); Students and community members attended the event at UC Berkeley’s International House (photo by Manali Sibthorpe).

Events Following a screening of Finding Oscar—the storyFollowing our successful series on mass incarceration in 2016, our Gun Violence in of a boy who survived aAmerica series used a multi-disciplinary lens—public health, journalism, social psychol- Guatemalan massacre, onlyogy, law, history, political science, and public policy—to analyze and articulate what more to be raised by a soldiercan be done to prevent future gun violence in the United States. We also held events for the who killed his family—campus and community on human rights in Central America, Myanmar, and the United Faculty Director Eric StoverStates, as well as on emerging technologies and human rights. moderates a panel with Director Ryan Suffern, International Human Rights Law Clinic Associate Director Roxanna Altholz, and activist Josue Revelorio (photo by Andrea Lampros). San Francisco State Professor Howard Pinderhughes speaks with other Bay Area gun control experts and community organizers about what’s next for challenging gun violence, while Social Science Matrix Associate Director Lindsay Skiba looks on (photo by Monica Haulman).Following a screening of the documentary Sittwe, Faculty Director Eric Alex Bush, Esmy Jimenez,Stover moderates a talk with U Myo Win, from the Smile Education and A.Y. Odedeyi, Joel Sati,Development Foundation in Yangon, Jeanne Hallacy, Sittwe filmmaker, and Rafael Martinez gatherand Kenneth Wong, a UC Berkeley lecturer in South and Southeast at Berkeley Law for theAsian Studies (photo by Andrea Lampros). launch of their publication Undocumental (photo by Andrea Lampros). HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER  |  ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018  |  13

Publications The Human Rights Center’s six recent reports examined the health effects of tear gas in Palestine refugee camps, human trafficking in Los Angeles, and a chemical strike on a hospital in Syria. We also issued reports from a seminal workshop at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center that lays the groundwork for drafting global guidelines on using open source information as evidence and another that captures our student summit in Berkeley and chronicles the birth of university-based open source investigations labs globally. BOOKS—now and coming soon! Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror (by Eric Stover, Victor Peskin, and Alexa Koenig) is now out in paperback Silent Witness:  Applying Forensic DNA Evidence in Criminal Investigations and Humanitarian Disasters.  Edited by Henry Erlich, Eric Stover, and Thomas White, and forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2019 The Habré Trial and Beyond: New Models of Prosecuting International Crimes? Edited by Sharon Weill, Kim Thuy Seelinger, and Kerstin Bree Carlson, and forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2019 Open Source Investigations for Human Rights Advocacy and Accountability Edited by Sam Dubberley, Daragh Murray, and Alexa Koenig, and forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 201914  |  HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER  |  ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018

Students and Teaching UC Berkeley undergraduate MiuThe Human Rights Center teaches hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students each Kumakura speaks toyear through the Human Rights Investigations Lab seminars and practicum, classes on fellow students inhealth and human rights, refugee law, and human rights practice. Teaching and training the Human Rightsstudents are at the heart of the center’s work. Investigations Lab about Myanmar.The Human Rights Center, based at BerkeleyLaw, draws students from multiple disciplines Students Youstina(photo by Andrea Lampros). Youssef, Hannah Bagdasar, and Nickie Lewis show their work at the Human Rights Investigations Lab. Alexandra Carter, a 2017 Fellow who worked with the ACLU in San Francisco, talks with her cohort at the post-fellowship debrief (photo by Andrea Lampros). HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER  |  ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018  |  15

Human Rights Center Staff at the annual retreat. (top row): Alexey Berlind, Audrey Staff and Students 2017Whiting, Kim Thuy Seelinger, Andrea Lampros, Julie Freccero, Khaled Alrabe; (frontrow): Monica Haulman, Kat Madrigal, Félim McMahon, Molly Vitorte, Alexa Koenig, Faculty and Staffand Eric Stover (photo by Monica Haulman). Eric Stover, Faculty DirectorHRC staff and visiting scholars in Simon Hall: Anna Banchik, Lindsay Freeman, Alexa Koenig, Executive DirectorAudrey Whiting, Monica Haulman, Alexey Berlind, Andrea Lampros, Adebayo Khaled Alrabe, ResearcherOkeowo, and Khaled Alrabe (photo by Alexa Koenig). Alexey Berlind, Programs Administrator and Events Coordinator16  |  HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER  |  ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018 Julie Freccero, Director, Health and Human Rights Program Monica Haulman, Administrative Assistant and Lab Coordinator Andrea Lampros, Communications Director Kat Madrigal Cheng, External Relations Manager Félim McMahon, Director, Technology and Human Rights Program Kim Thuy Seelinger, Director, Sexual Violence Program Molly Vitorte, Deputy Director Audrey Whiting, Researcher and Fellowship Coordinator Student Employees Griselda Cabrera, Health and Human Rights Program Maya Fedderson, Team Leader, Investigations Lab Jenna Feraud, Health and Human Rights Program John Harmon, Sexual Violence Program Katrina Kennedy, Health and Human Rights Program Stefanie Le, Team Leader, Investigations Lab Sander Lutz, Archive Project Tsuyoshi Onda, Health and Human Rights Program Olivia Rempel, Team Leader, Investigations Lab Emily Thomas, Team Leader, Investigations Lab Andrea Trewinnard, Team Leader, Investigations Lab Haley Willis, Team Leader, Investigations Lab Youstina Youssef, Team Leader, Investigations Lab A special thank you to HRC staff member Khaled Alrabe who moved on at the end of 2017.

Advisory Board and Research FellowsAdvisory Board Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins, an HRC ResearchRichard M. Buxbaum, Professor Emeritus, Berkeley Law Fellow, teaches studentsMaryam Elahi, Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut about geolocation at theHenry Erlich, Senior Scientist, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute first Digital VerificationJaune Evans, Executive Director, Tamalpais Trust Corps student summit,Elizabeth Farnsworth, Journalist/Filmmaker hosted by the HumanDeborah Goldblatt, Community Volunteer Rights Center (photo byAdam Hochschild, Journalist, Lecturer, Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley Monica Haulman).Kim Keller, Executive Director, David and Anita Keller FoundationBertrand Lubin, Associate Dean of Children’s Health, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals HRC Advisory BoardLiz Lutz member AdamJoan Platt, Founder and President, Joan and Lewis Platt Foundation Hochshild (photo byJuan Méndez, Special Rapporteur on Torture, UN Commission on Human Rights Andrea Lampros).Art Reingold, MD, Professor and Division Head, Epidemiology, School of Public Health, HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER  |  ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018  |  17 UC BerkeleyDarian W. Swig, Founder and President, Article 3 AdvisorsBeth Van Schaack, Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor of Human Rights, Stanford Law SchoolHon. Rebecca Westerfield (ret.), MediatorThomas J. White (ret.), Chief Scientific Officer, CeleraSenior Research Fellows  Patricia Viseur Sellers Lindsay Freeman Visiting or Consulting Rohini Haar ResearchersCarolyn Patty Blum Harvey Weinstein Eliot Higgins Keith Hiatt Anna BanchikCharles H. Brenner Human Rights Center Benjamin Schiff Kirsten Bowman Karl Shoenberger Lindsay FreemanSarah Warshauer Freedman Research Fellows  David Tuller Joseph Guay Cathy Zimmerman Joanna OrtegaVincent Iacopino Khaled Alrabe Julia Uyttewaal Tara VassefiCristián Orrego Benavente Patrick BallGilles Peress Mychelle BalthazardVictor Peskin Stephen Smith CodyHernán Reyes Camille Crittenden

Donors 2017 David Keller and Many thanks to our generous donors in 2017. You Alva G. Greenberg Elizabeth Farnsworth make our work possible. Dorothy Gregor talk with Alexa Koenig E. Anne Griffiths Individual Donors Susan L. Hannah—In honor of Alexa Koenig at the screening of Stephen Isaacs and Kathryn MacBride Dead Reckoning, Anonymous Nina Jehle Katherine Abbott Gentaro Kameiproduced by Jonathan Hesham Al-Alusi Joan and Timothy Kask Silvers and co- Margaret Alkon and Jonathan Marshall David and Anita Keller Daniel Appelman Lori and Jeremiah Kepner produced by Eric Bridget Baird Steve and Renee Kirk— In honor of Alexa Koenig Stover (photo Gail Bensinger Wendy Kirk-Scalise Ross Benson Lenore Kitts by Andrea Lampros). Suzanne and Robert Boas—In honor of Heidi Boas Alexa Koenig and Don Mercer Gregg Butensky Charles Koenig — In honor of Alexa Koenig HRC Programs Richard Buxbaum and Catherine Hartshorn Maja Kristin and Events Nina Byers Krista and Ajay Kshatriya—In memory of Robert Calo—In honor of Alexa Koenig, Andrea Coordinator Alexey Judge Harry Pregerson Berlind greets Lampros, and Eric Stover Sandra LaFramboise and Michael Marken Jonathan and Susanna Cobb Andrea Lampros and John Fike—In honor of the Open Society David Condra Foundations’s Paul Craig and Kathleen Cox Milton Lampros Sheldon and Janet Crandall—In honor of Eric Stover Marcus Lampros Borislav Petranov, Chantelle LaPierre with Alexa Koenig and Alexa Koenig Ryan Lincoln and Laurel Fletcher Camille Crittenden and John Palmer Katerina Linos and Stavros Gadinis (photo by Andrea Ellen Daniell and David Gelfand Liz and Greg Lutz Joanne DePhillips Cheryl Lutz and Larry Pizarro Lampros). Natasha and David Dolby Melissa McCall Ruth Eisenberg and Greg Hendren Ilene Moore and Edward Rubin—In memory of Former HRC Henry Erlich and Brenda Way Associate Director Elizabeth Farnsworth George Moore and retired clinical Lois Feinblatt Millard Murphy and Laurel Brody Laurel Fletcher and Jeffrey Selbin Noah Novogrodsky professor in the Thomas Franco Monique Olivier School of Public Sarah Freedman Eve Pell Deborah Garvey —In memory of my mother D Roberto Portolese Health Harvey Linda and Daniel Geballe Ellen Prager Weinstein says hello Mark Gergen and Susan Whitman Keramet Reiter and Thomas Blair Vivian and Sandy Golden Laura Roberts (photo by Andrea Robert Gomez Bart and Linda Saunders—In honor of Alexa Koenig Lampros). 18  |  HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER  |  ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018

Herbert Schreier—In memory of Arthur Schreier Rebecca Westerfield John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur FoundationGeorge and Linda Sensabaugh Thomas J. White Oak FoundationJonathan Simon and Christina Spaulding Susan Whitman and Mark P. Gergen Open Society FoundationsStephen Smith Cody and Amanda Beck Herman and Renee Winick— In memory of Joseph The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio CenterJerry Snow—In memory of Clyde C. Snow Sigrid Rausing TrustDan and Elizabeth Sokolov Birman and Andy Sessler Save the ChildrenGail Solo Glenn Woroch and Patricia Pacheco Social Science MatrixEric Stover and Pamela Blotner Student Technology FundLorraine Sumulong Foundations and Corporations Tang Opportunity FundDarian and Rick Swig Townsend Center for the HumanitiesNadine Tang and Bruce Smith Berkeley Collegium Uganda FundJeremy Thorner and Carol Mimura—In memory of California Humanities The California Wellness Foundation Local Businesses Shirley Goldberg & Melvin Thorner Center for Long-Term CybersecuritySylvia Tiwon Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Berkeley BowlJudith Tuller Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund Trader Joe’sGreg Ward and Elizabeth Addison France-Berkeley FundHarvey and Rhona Weinstein Humanity UnitedSamantha and James Wendt—In honor of Institute of International Education International Rescue Committee Dr. Thomas J. White Jacob and Valeria Langeloth FoundationCrowdfunding donors 2018 Sasha John Ryan Lincoln Hernan Reyes Samaruddin Stewart Fernanda Jordao Evita Michael Litchfield Kevin Reyes Eric StoverThank you for helping us make a home for Joan Kask Liz and Greg Lutz Jamie Rowen Dan Taborihuman rights! David Keller Jason MacLeod Marissa Saretsky Jack Tame Steven Kirk Diana Malin Nushin Sarkarati Julia UyttewaalAnonymous (17) Norma Cole Wendy Kirk-Scalise Olivier Massot Sarah Schear Beth Van SchaackKhaled Alrabe Nomi Conway Karen Klayman Robin Mejia Benjamin Schiff Molly VitorteKenneth Aron Kate Doyle Alec Konstantin Don Mercer George Scharffenberger Harvey WeinsteinCameran Ashraf Jennifer Easterday Alexa Koenig Ariel Meyerstein Kelli Schlegel Richard WeirAmy Belsher Elizabeth Farnsworth Charles Koenig Senna Milstead Kim Thuy Seelinger Rebecca WesterfieldKevin Bentz Karin Goh Ellen Koerber Faris Natour George Sensabaugh Herman WinickAlexey Berlind Lauren Groth Sophia Konstantin Darcy Paquette Carla Shapreau Thomas WhiteCaleb Bowers Abram Hardin Andrea Lampros Yumi Park Brandon Shooshani Pauline White MeeusenRichard M. Buxbaum Monica Haulman Marcus Lampros Victor Peskin Elaine Sir Luke WhitingKat Madrigal Cheng Jasmine Hennessy Chantel LaPierre Ellen Prager Lee Slome Richard, Heidi, and Haley WillisRishi Chopra Teri Herbst Chris Lee Don Ralphs Nisha Srinivasa Diana Yovino-YoungStephen Cody Julie Hooper Michael Levin Kristin Reed Adam Sterling Irene YuAlison Cole Sarah Hunter HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER  |  ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018  |  19

Financial Report 2017 Benefits  $299,386 (27.8%)SALARIES: 23 STAFF Subtotal 1,076,0225616+2z8(11professional,12studentstaff) Program salaries  $608,179 (56.5%)Administrative salaries $168,457 (15.7%) Fellowships $55,000 Liability insurance  $7,572Building/rent/space $2,151NON SALARY EXPENSES Indirect costs paid to Berkeley  $53,8001+483172zConferences/workshops  Subtotal Computers and supplies $34,854 324,527 THANK YOU FOR YOUR(including all travel) $113,105 Research support  $58,045 SUPPORT  Total Expenses The Human Rights Center relies Berkeley Law on your contributions to:(teaching contribution)  $322,9001,400,549 •  investigate war crimes2581+23zEndowmentincome $36,554 Sales, Services, Fees  $6,855 •  support survivors Individual donations  $433,627 •  research human rights •  train the next generation INCOME To support our work, please send Grants $921,041 your tax-deductible donation to the Human Rights Center, 396 Simon Hall, UC Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA 94720 or visit hrc.berkeley.edu and click “Donate.” Thank you! Total Income 1,720,97720  |  HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER  |  ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018

A Rohingya boy walks through a refugee camp in Bangladesh (photo by Jeanne Hallacy).“ Where, after all, do universal rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. ”Eleanor Roosevelt, “The Great Question” remarks delivered at the United Nations in New York on March 27, 1958

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